Covered barn-door track and hanger.



E. F. MONNIER. COVERED BARN Doon TRACK AND HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 3, 1909.

947,019. Patented Jan 18,1910.`

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UNITED* To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known thaty I, EMILE F. MONNIER, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Coggon, in the county of Linn and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new/ and useful Covered Barn- Door Track and Hanger, of which the following. is a full, clear, and exact description.

The principal objects which the present invention has in view are: to provide a' device for hanging sliding doors, which is fully protected from rain andl snow; and to provide a device which is simplified in construction and arrangement to ermit the in-l stallation thereof by an unskil ed person.

One embodiment of the present invention is disclosed in the construction illustrated .in the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters of reference indicate corresponds ing parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a door mounted upon a covered track and hangers constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is a detail view in side elevation of a hanger truck; Fig. 3 is a top view of the hanger Vtruck shown in Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a detail view in end elevation, showing the hanger mounted upon the tracks, and the housing for the same; Fig. 5 is a perspective View of the end closing and retaining device; Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a modilied lform of my invention with housing turned under to formvppartv of track; Fig. 7A

is a horizontal section taken through the housing illustrated in Fig. 6, looking down on the track slot; and Fig; 8 is a perspective view of one of the end closure caps used in conjunction with themoditied form of structure.

The door 6 is of any usual and suitable construction, and is suspended above the floor of the structure to which it is applied. It is secured to a bent strap 7 by means of bolts passed through the door, and through perforations 8, 8, 1n said stra The strap, before being secured to the oor, is passed through a stirrup opening 9 formed in a plate 10. The plate 10 is secured to side arms 11, 11, which are spread to receive the spherical rollers 12,12, as shown particu-4 larly in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings. The rollers 12, l2 are rotatively mounted upon axles 13, 13, which are passed through. the said rollers and side arms 1l, l1, andriveted or overturned at 14, 14, at the outside of the said side arms 11, 11.

srArEs .PATENT OFFICE EMILE E. MONNIER, or coGGoN, IOWA.-

COVERD BARN-DOOR TRACK'AND HANGER.

i Withadoor or similar structureprovided Specifica'clon of .Letters'latentl 4' Patented( er an# 1'8', ,Application am July s, 1909. semi No. 505,823.

with' a carrying truck,`such as describedglfit will be noticed that thestructure'iishelin' a` vertical, position by" its- "own weight". Axt the same time thedoor may swing andfyield: to a pressure which otherwise would cause the door to become-jammed.

The rollers 12, 12. are arranged to-trauki l upon the edges of a-slot 15,' which" is formed between bent plates 16, 16, riveted at 17,

17 to straps 18 and to a housing 19 at' proper i intervals. The housin 19' is shaped and reinforced to maintain t e contour imparted to yit by the forming press, and isprovid'ed? with an over-reaching extension 20- to overhangthe upperedge of thestraps 18. The housing 21,21-.. i

At each end of the trackstructure formed by the plate 16 and the housing19, thev latter is held inline by brackets 22, 22, secured to the building structure upon which the track is mounted, by, suitable fastenings passed through perforations 23, 23.

The bent plates 16 are formed from ma-- terial sufficiently heavy to retain their shape while supporting the weight of the door. The plate 16 is joined to the straps 1S as illustrated in the drawings. The plate 16 being thus secured, the straps 18 and the housing. 19 are joined by the rivets 21, 21. The track structure is now secured to the building by driving at suitable intervals, through the upper edge of the joined straps and housing, any desired form of fastenings. TheB door 6 is now raised, until the rollers 12, 12 may be inserted within the space above the plates 16, the door being held in this position by any common method, such as blocking. lVhen the trucks are both -within the-track space, the brackets 22 are inserted and fastened in position.

The brackets 22 are shaped'to the inner contour of the housing 19. The brackets are provided at the outer`edge thereof with a hook-shaped ear 26, which is bent, as shownl more particularly in Fig. 5 of the drawings, to permit the body of the housing 19 to rest within the groove 27 formed by the hook 26. It will be seen from this constructin that the Walls of the brackets 22 prevent anysag of the housing 19, and the ears 26 prevent the outward displacement of the said housing.

The brackets 22 having been secured in position, the blocks, or other devices, for

is secured to the straps by rivets 'Y suspending the door 6 are removed, permitting the weight of the door to rest upon the rollers 12, 12 and the plates 16, 16.

With hangers constructed as thus described, a door will move from end to end of the track formed by the plates 16, 16 with very little friction, by reason of the fact that the rollers 12, 12 accommodate themselves readily to the opening of the plates 16, 16, and bear upon the edge of the metal forming the slot 15.

By reason ofthe construction wherein is employed two spherical rollers 12, 12, mounted in the truck formed by the side arms 11, 11, the weight of the-door is distributed over a larger area than would result from mounting the door upon a single roller. By using the-spherical rollers 12, 12, any inequality in the opening of the slot 15 is compensated, thereby requiring less accuracy in the construction of the tracks.

There is shown at Figs. 6, 7 and 8 a modified form of the construction, wherein the extension 25 is dispensed with and the lions ing 19 is turned toward the plate 16, being given the same curvature as the said plate. The housing 19 thereby forms the outer half of the track for the spherical rollers 12, 12 in the same manner as in the construction shown in Fig. 4-of the drawings, wherein the track is formed by the two plates 16, 16. Further, in this modified form I con struct the housing in short lengths to be joined by a sleeve 28, which is suitably riveted to the ends of the sections of the lions ing 19. This sleeve may be so constructed as to render the construction more rigid, by forming a corrugation in the said strap. The rivets 29, 29 shown therein may be substituted by screw bolts, should it be desired. By this latter form, the operation of the invention is in all respects-the same as described above, except that the modified form serves an advantage when the hanger is being shipped, the short sections beingadvantageous in shipping.

The bracket 22, shown at Fig. 8 and used in conjunction with the modihed form of the track structure, is in all respectssimilar to the bracket 22 shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings, except that the lower extension formed in the structure shown in Fig. 5 to conform to the straight extension 25 is omitted. I

With a track constructed in conformity with the modified form, the operation of erecting is as follows: The first joint of track is secured to the building and then leveled. The second joint is then inserted in the sleevel 28 and built up with the tirs! joint and fastened in place. The third joint is added in the same way until the entire track is in position.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a barn door hanger the combination with a truck comprismv a plurality of spherical rollers rotativeIy mounted in a frame, a stirrup rigidly secured in said frame between. said rollers and depended therefrom to form a hinge section, a strap passing through said stirrup forming a hinge section and adapted to be secured to the door; of a tubular track comprisinfr a plurality of track sections circularly beaded in cross section the lower ends thereof being disposed to forrn a continuous slot for the passage of said stirrup and a track for said rollers, a housing having an inclined upper surface and a depending apron rigidly conneeted to one of said track sections to support the lower edge thereof above the lower edge of said apron, a plurality of hanging straps rigidly secured to said housing an the other of said track sections, and bracket pieces filling the ends of the tubular structure formed by the said track sections and housing said pieces having extensions folded about the ends of the said housing and adapted to be secured to the building strueture to maintain the tubular formation and support the said housing.

In-testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMILE F. MONNIER.

Witnesses:

C. E. BUCKLEY, H. S. JosLIN. 

